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One of the usual forgers wrote:
>>They still have the fuse in there, causing the usual 
>>problems and leaving me to suggest that nobody actually
>>go into a cave with this light. 

Speaking of such fuses, an interesting story came across my desk today. 
Apparently a couple of gentlemen were out catching frogs one day, and as
it started getting dark and they got back into their pickup truck they
found the headlights weren't working.  Turned out the cause was the fuse,
and you can't put in a penny like you can with house fuses.  The one
thing they had that would do the job nicely was a .22 round, and they
made 20 miles with the thing before the primer cooked off, firing it
through the driver's right testicle.  Between that and the sudden
darkness, it was probably quite understandable that he put it into the
trees.  Further injuries were relatively minor, but the kicker was that
when the sheriff's deputy reported the incident to the man's wife, her
main concerns were how many frogs did they get, and did anyone remember
to retrieve the bucket from the truck.

Getting back to fuses in dive lights, have there been any cases of loss
of light due to the fuse falling out or the fuse holder corroding or
whatever?  Seems to me that if you size the fuse right, it's not going to
pop unless something shorts out, in which case you'd be going to a
secondary light real soon anyway, and at least it'll save the wiring and
the battery from meltdown and leave you with a light you can fix for the
next dive.  Can somebody enumerate the "usual problems" alluded to in
that message?

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Anthony DeBoer                                  http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/
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